bambara
\bɑ̃.ba.ʁa\
The verdict
“bambara” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,513. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,513
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue parlée au Mali et dans quelques autres pays de l’Afrique de l’Ouest tel que le Burkina Faso, la Côte d’Ivoire, la Guinée, le Sénégal et la Gambie. Elle est une langue mandingue très proche d...
Corpus desk
Index FR-bambara · bambara · French
bambara · rank #49,513 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,513
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bandana
Nearest frequency peer: bandana (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bambara »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- avéra
avéra
50,492 corpus weight
- badger
badger
50,491 corpus weight
- bambara
bambara
50,488 corpus weight
- bandana
bandana
50,487 corpus weight
- barkhane
barkhane
50,486 corpus weight
- Beaugrand
Beaugrand
50,485 corpus weight
What this shows « bambara » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bambara |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.ba.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bambara »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bambara (IPA \bɑ̃.ba.ʁa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,513 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Langue parlée au Mali et dans quelques autres pays de l’Afrique de l’Ouest tel que le Burkina Faso, la Côte d’Ivoire, la Guinée, le Sénégal et la Gambie. Elle est une langue mandingue très proche d...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bambara, with forms such as "abmbara", "babmara", and "bamabra". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "barbara", "barbare", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bambara, spelled B-A-M-B-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Langue parlée au Mali et dans quelques autres pays de l’Afrique de l’Ouest tel que le Burkina Faso, la Côte d’Ivoire, la Guinée, le Sénégal et la Gambie. Elle est une langue mandingue très proche du dioula et du malinké.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bambara appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bambara est parlé par plus de 15 millions de personnes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abmbara
- babmara
- bamabra
- bambaar
- bambarra
- bambbara
- bambraa
- bammbara
- bbambara
- bmabara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bambara - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bambara", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).